Method and monitoring system for the rule-based monitoring of a service-oriented architecture

• US 20100088256A1
• Filed: 10/06/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Software AG
• Original Assignee: Software AG
• Inventors: Ristow, Gerald, Voegele, Joachim
• Granted Patent: US 8,271,407 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method for the rule-based monitoring of a component (C1) added to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), the SOA comprising a plurality of components (C2, . . . , Cn) being monitored by a plurality of monitoring components (M2, . . . , Mn), the method comprising the following steps:

• • a. selecting a component (C2) from the plurality of components (C2, . . . , Cn) of the SOA which is similar to the added component (C1) based on a similarity-metric;
  • b. selecting at least one rule (R2) from the monitoring component (M2) of the selected component (C2), wherein the at least one rule (R2) has already been validated during the operation of the SOA; and
  • c. adding the at least one rule (R2) to a new monitoring component (M1) of the added component (C1).

Claims

1. A method for the rule-based monitoring of a component (C1) added to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), the SOA comprising a plurality of components (C2, . . . , Cn) being monitored by a plurality of monitoring components (M2, . . . , Mn), the method comprising the following steps:

a. selecting a component (C2) from the plurality of components (C2, . . . , Cn) of the SOA which is similar to the added component (C1) based on a similarity-metric;

b. selecting at least one rule (R2) from the monitoring component (M2) of the selected component (C2), wherein the at least one rule (R2) has already been validated during the operation of the SOA; and

c. adding the at least one rule (R2) to a new monitoring component (M1) of the added component (C1).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the similarity-metric calculates a similarity-value indicating the similarity of the added component (C1) with the plurality of components (C2, . . . , Cn) of the SOA and wherein the component (C2) with the highest similarity-value is selected.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the component (C2) is only selected in step a. if the similarity-value is greater or equal to a pre-defined value.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the similarity-metric categorizes the components (C1, C2, . . . , Cn) into groups such as service, application server and/or computer hardware.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the components (C1, C2, . . . , Cn) are services and wherein the similarity-value is calculated based on any of the group of information comprising the number and/or the names of operations provided by the services, their input parameter types and/or their output parameter types.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the components (C1, C2, . . . , Cn) are application servers and wherein the similarity-value is calculated based on any of the group of information comprising their product types, product versions, used software, and/or used hardware.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the components (C1, C2, . . . , Cn) are computer hardware and wherein the similarity-value is calculated based on any of the group of information comprising their operating systems, operating system versions and/or hardware configurations.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the selected monitoring component (M2) has undergone a learning-phase to obtain the at least one rule (R2).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected monitoring component (M2) has undergone a testing-phase to validate the at least one rule (R2) during the operation of the SOA.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing the new monitoring component (M1) and the at least one added rule (R2) to a testing-phase to validate the at least one rule (R2) during the operation of the SOA.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing the new monitoring component (M1) and the at least one added rule (R2) to a learning-phase to determine at least one parameter of the at least one rule (R2).

12. A monitoring system for the rule-based monitoring of a component (C1) added to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), the SOA comprising a plurality of components (C2, . . . , Cn) being monitored by a plurality of monitoring components (M2, . . . , Mn), the monitoring system being adapted for performing a method of claim 1.

13. A computer program comprising instructions for implementing a method of claim 1.